Moving......Again

I'm sitting here blury eyed from spending the last hour or so looking at craigslist and IKEA for new furniture for our future residence. It's that time again where Joe and I are packing up and moving; only this time instead of going 3000 miles we're only going six blocks. Charlie needs his condo back sooner than expected so Joe and I spent a whirlwind of a weekend looking at potentional new places for ourselves. We decided that location weighed more heavily than relocating to the "east side" near my job and so we've signed ourselves up for at least 6 months more of city living. We seemed to find the good, the better, and the bad through our search yesterday. From dingy hallways, to left over food stuck on a cutting board (I had to hold my true reaction to this until after we got outside!) we did get to see the variety of housing that Seattle has to offer. With the economic crisis and the celebration of Valentine's Day (yes apartment complexes actually acknowledged Halmark's holiday), we got a good deal on a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in a high rise just six blocks from where we currently live now. We will still be considered the area of "First Hill" but the buildings around us are a little more updated than our current surroundings. We can still get to a lot on foot and have the space not to drive each other crazy which is always a plus! We just started the paperwork today with hopes of signing the lease and then moving in by next weekend. I am dragging my feet at the thought of packing and hauling things. I counted up the number of times that I have done this in the 10 years since graduating high school and I will be up to number 9 if you include my stint in England. I think it is safe to say that as of yet I am not worthy of permanent ink in anyone's address book and sharp #2 pencil seems to be the better tool. We have been spoiled by having full use of Charlie's furniture and besides our boxes of "stuff" and clothes, the only think we can lay claim to is a used futon and an IKEA coffee table. Considering our space, we have some work to do in filling it. I have dreams of owning "big girl furniture" which includes not having pieces to put together using wooden pegs and instructions that may miss a step (big shout out to IKEA here!). But alas that is where my search has taken me- both IKEA and Craigslist for the in between stage of furniture once again. Maybe big girl furniture magically appears when I turn 30, or maybe I'm destined to the life of buying and selling furniture on the internet, either way I I have two years to find out!